The Art of Washing Clothes

I am currently suffering the result of doing laundry with insufficient skill.

All I can say is that I never knew washing clothes was so... difficult.

Here's a list of steps leading to my situation now:
1) In such cold weather, I wear many layers and though I don't change every one that often, it just piles up. Besides, cooking so often makes my clothes smell.
2) I don't have enough clothes so I have to wash when I run out of a certain type of clothing.
3) I normally split my clothes into light and dark colours, but somehow I didn't bring a good mix so there aren't enough light-coloured clothes.
4) I have to pay about S$3 each time I run the washing machine.
5) The laundry area is in the block opposite mine, so I have to lug the clothes 4 stories down, across the carpark and 1 storey up, opening and closing 9 doors in the process.
6) The laundry basket I am currently using is lined with foldable wire and it sags and deforms badly when I try to carry it with too much clothing inside.
7) I have to put on a huge coat, socks and shoes every time I go out and it always happens to snow everytime I want to do my laundry.
8) I don't have a scoop for my washing powder so I have to use great estimation skills when I pour the powder.
9) When I walk out into the cold about 45 min later to collect the clothes, they are even heavier than before and freezing with the cold water.
10) I have to move them 1 storey down, across the carpark and 4 stories up, opening the same 9 doors, and to make things worse, I need a key to open 4 of them.
11) I hang all my clothes in my room which barely has ventilation and I have limited hangers.

As a result, this is my situation today:
- Seriously aching arms.
- My laundry basket is probably unable to take even one more round of clothes, so I have to think of alternatives.
- Soapy dried clothes. I need to improve my estimation skills. It feels like there is a layer of wax or something and it seems to make my clothes hard and starchy.

My aim is to not be so 狼狈 the next time I wash clothes.